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Lex Fest's Interests
General
Everything wacky, freaky, and fun!
Music
All types of music and performance. LAAFF has hosted performances by local favorites such as The Big Money Band, the Trainwrecks, Bandazian, the Sophisticated Chimps, The Plowshares, Chalwa, Sons of a Keeled over Snake, CX1, Kellin Watson, Banana Da Terra, River Guerguerian, Nevada, Hip Hop Revolution, Rev Doc, Jar-E, Thing Three, Menage, Afromotive, the Toubab krewe, Strut, Hollywood Red, Jen and the Juice, Cabo Verde, Soora Gameela, the Shining Rock Reggae Band, Bannana deTerra, Baraki Mundi, the Oxymorons comedy, Agroloa, Menage, Jarrett Leone, Sidney Barnes and his Goodtime Band, The Muses, Pierce Edens, John Voross, Blake Burris, Quebrao, the Rebelles Burlesque and their band the Pheremones, Stephanie's Id, Ash Devine, Unifire Theatre, Ahleuchastistas, Patrick Fitsimons & Eliza Lynn,Kuumba and David, Vendetta Crème GFE, Centro Esportivo de Capoeira Angola, Speedsquare, Maria-guajira Latin Dance, Wicked Geisha, Skint Back City Public Radio, Nevada, Avec La Force Percussion Inititive, Ballet Warraba, Tyler Ramsey, JP Delenoye of Ghost Mountain, Wayne Robins and the Hellsayers, the Labiators, Dig Shovel Dig, Drug Money, Tito Amaya, Free Mojo, Simple Mathmatics, Leigh Glas, Brycon, Gavra Lynn, Valorie Miller, Jen Bertiaux, Tablesaw, Blue Spectral Monkey, Peace Jones, Opera Girls, Jamie Thomas, the Zion Project,Scrappy Hamilton, Mary Stair, Universal Circle, Usdi Tawodi, Kat Williams, Pens and Needles, Djin Tana, Eye for an Iris Press, Katie Kasben's "Piece of Hair", Pippi's fashions, the Winds of Chang enviro- conscious puppetsSweet Mama Tea and Her Red Hot Sugar Babies, The Hu Nab Kru Breakdancers, Nbale, Inamalek, DR Ensemble, Taylor Martin, Johnny's Inhaler, LEAF in Schools and Streets, the Buckarettes, Mad Tea Party, the Great Slide, Fifth House . . .
Movies
LAAFF video footage 2006 by Villasonica and Studio South...check out their myspace pages and stay tuned...
Television
Your contribution of joining us and experiencing a fun day of creative expression will support local non-profit Arts 2 People and our many projects. Arts2People is devoted to promoting the role of the arts as an integral part of our culture by serving the entire community through arts outreach, bringing the arts to those in need, supporting the careers of artists, and through community cultural development. Arts2People’s many projects include The Pritchard Park Cultural Arts Program, The REACH Educational series, The Asheville Mural Project, Moving Women, The Faces of Asheville and more. Visit www.arts2people.org, myspace.com/arts2people, and www.myspace.com/pritchardparkarts
Books
Heroes
Pics from from 2007, by Andolent. For more of Andolent's work visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/anoldent
Arts2People is excited to bring you the 7th annual FREE, Lexington Ave Arts and Fun Festival. Three blocks of N. Lexington Ave will be lined with all local art, food, beer and street performers on Sunday, September 7th from 11am – 10pm between College Street and the I 240 overpass. The street will be brimming with a celebration Asheville’s diverse and unique culture.
Three stages and two courtyards of music and performance include rock and roll, indie pop, funk, folk, ragtime, reggae, world beats, singer songwriters, bluegrass, old time, drummers, clowns, magicians, contortionists, belly dancers, modern dancers, vaudeville actors, fire dancers, break dancers, and hula hoopers. The complete lineup will be available within the next couple of weeks; stay tuned to our emails find out more details of the day’s events.
LAAFF is great for the whole family. Kids will love making art, dancing, and having fun all day long. Many kids’ performance acts include kids’ hip hop, break dancing, modern dance, jump roping, jazz and more. The big “kids” will enjoy the ever popular bicycle jousting, local brews, an eclectic culinary and artistic experience, as well as a tantalizing world record attempt.
Each year the festival grows larger and gets even better. We are now considered by the City to be Asheville's largest independent festival! We grew by 30% last year, and expect a similar increase this year. This is truly the festival that showcases all of Asheville’s creative juices. With an attendance of about 12,000 people, LAAFF relies on community support to ensure our success each year. LAAFF is a volunteer driven event put on by and for the community. If you would like to get involved as a volunteer or as a sponsor please contact us.
The LAAFF 2008 Stage Performer Directory with weblinks is avaliable at
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=puDL5OqjTnQn_Tn2L6YMOOA
Come prepared for many LAAFFs on this amazing day and to truly experience the original local flavor of Asheville.
If you would like to find out more or get involved send me a message.
Video of Unifire Theatre at LAAFF 2007 www.unifiredance.com
Sidney Barnes at LAAFF 2006
Who I'd like to meet: Creative performers, artists, craftspeople, culinary artists, fashion designers, comedians, and street performers living in the Asheville Area. We always love volunteers!!!! We are looking for festival event coordinators , sponsors and anyone with great ideas and follow through!
The first Lex Fest reminded me why I love living in Asheville. It's like Bele Chere for cool people! This is the 3rd one I have missed due to now having taken up residence on the West Coast. Send me some pics, Erin!
I ADORE this year's artwork, by the by:) thanks for the ear the other day! listening, i mean, not the weird gift you gave me that had some fake cz stone earring still in it.
Don't forget to come out and support the doggies and incredible local and regional talent at Dogstock-The Musical Celebration of the Dogs August 14-17 ... Only $60 donation per car for all four days and nights including park by camping on 81 beautiful shady acres of Osage County Kansas private property located between Pomona Lake and Melvern Lake! Only an hour from KC, Lawrence, Topeka and the bargain of the year. All talent, sound and lights are donated thanks to many caring musicians, techs and other volunteers to benefit the AARF Humane Sanctuary. Well behaved dogs up to date on shots and on leash welcome!
